I was reading The Spike by Damien Broderick (I’m up to the part about the complexity of controlling zillions of nanomachines) and a fellow passenger asked what it’s about. People are paid to summarize books better than I can, so I passed it over so she could read the covers. She asked whether the tone is alarmist (no, but it is cautious) and then said, “You know, they had that same technology in Atlantis. It’s not the first time around.”
Later she asked, “What technology do you think they used to build the Pyramids?” “Ramps and rollers.” “And how do you explain the fact that they had electricity?” (I confess I haven’t felt any need to do so.) She told me that an Egyptian archaeologist – not English or German, she emphasized – has found ‘electrical’ wires and what appears to be a lighting filament in Tutankhamn’s tomb. Wonders never cease — and it would seem they have no beginning either.